Arts & Culture
[UPDATE: Thursday, July 18, 2019 at 4:30pm] After an extensive nationwide search, 651 ARTS has selected David Roberts as the organization’s new Executive Director. Roberts most recently served as the Executive Director of Stage Directors and Choreographers Foundation and, prior to that, as the Managing Director of The
Arts & Culture
FORT GREENE – Though its official grand opening isn’t for another couple of weeks, The Center for Fiction [http://www.centerforfiction.org/new-space-in-brooklyn] offered a preview of its new home at 15 Lafayette Avenue (between Rockwell & Ashland Place) Tuesday morning while crews were busy adding finishing touches. The Center
Announcements
FORT GREENE – The Center for Fiction [http://www.centerforfiction.org] is relocating from its longtime home in midtown Manhattan to the Brooklyn Cultural District. The Center for Fiction rendering by BKSK ArchitectsScheduled to open on February 1, 2019 at 15 Lafayette Avenue, the 17,500-square-foot, three story facility will feature
Arts & Culture
DOWNTOWN BROOKLYN – Next weekend, the Downtown Brooklyn Partnership [http://downtownbrooklyn.com] will host Discover the District, an inaugural festival celebrating the many diverse arts organizations in the Brooklyn Cultural District. 300 Ashland Plaza (Photo courtesy of Two Trees)Brooklyn’s top cultural institutions are participating in the Downtown Brooklyn Arts
Nonsponsored
Rendering via Alloy Development [http://www.alloyllc.com/more/educational-construction-fund-ecf-designates-alloy-to-build-2-new-schools-in-downtown-brooklyn-as-part-of-a-mixed-use-development] Alloy Development [http://www.alloyllc.com/] has issued a call for submissions seeking artists to create large-scale murals on three exteriors of its 80 Flatbush [http://www.80flatbush.com/] project, a massive new development that will consist of two towers—
Nonsponsored
Rendering via Alloy Development [http://www.alloyllc.com/more/educational-construction-fund-ecf-designates-alloy-to-build-2-new-schools-in-downtown-brooklyn-as-part-of-a-mixed-use-development] On Monday, the real estate development firm Alloy Development [http://www.alloyllc.com/] revealed its plans to erect 80 Flatbush [http://www.80flatbush.com/], a massive new project consisting of two towers—one measuring 38 stories, and the other a
Central Brooklyn
Brooklyn Academy of Music (Photo by Pamela Wong/BKLYNER)The intersection at Fulton Street and Lafayette Avenue in Fort Greene tops the list [http://www.crainsnewyork.com/article/20170216/REAL_ESTATE/170219909/cultural-hub-near-brooklyn-academy-of-music-becomes-nexus-of-retail-and-residential-development-and-a-place-to-buy-condos-in-brooklyn-near-parks] of six retail areas poised for growth in CPEX Real Estate’s eighth annual Brooklyn Retail Report.
Brooklyn Cultural District
The public discussion about the Brooklyn Strand [http://www.wxystudio.com/projects/urban_design/brooklyn_strand] is coming to Fort Greene with three community workshops, the first of which is tonight (Tuesday, October 20) from 6-7:30pm at the Walt Whitman Senior Center at 105 North Portland Avenue. The second
Brooklyn Cultural District
Image via MetroTech BID [http://downtownbrooklyn.com/about/metrotech-bid]. Community Board 2 (CB 2) members voted overwhelmingly at their May meeting to support the MetroTech Business Improvement District’s (BID) plans to expand its boundaries [http://downtownbrooklyn.com/about/metrotech-bid] from Downtown Brooklyn to include some cultural institutions in part
Andrew Kalish
The thick, humid air might be weighing many of you down today, but that isn’t the case for busy bees around the neighborhood. Although we wouldn’t normally get this close for a photo, intrepid local Francisco Daum [https://www.flickr.com/photos/franciscodaum/5905040657] was able to brave